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TORONTO (AP) -- Canadian social worker Christine Archibald is being remembered as a "bright light" for her profession as those who loved her launch an online campaign of compassionate acts after she was struck by a van of terrorists on London Bridge and died in her fiance's arms....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump can't be counted on to give accurate information to Americans when violent acts are unfolding abroad....
Christine Lui Chen, a 36-year-old health care executive in New Jersey and mother of two small children, had never considered entering politics, focusing instead on her family, her career and her community....
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Accompanied into the courthouse by a member of the TV family who cemented his nice-guy image as America's Dad, Bill Cosby went on trial Monday on sexual assault charges, his legacy and his freedom on the line....
LONDON (AP) -- British counterterrorism investigators searched homes and detained more people Monday in the London attack investigation as an intense political firestorm developed over Prime Minister Theresa May's role in reducing police ranks....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump for a second day lashed out at London's mayor on Twitter in the wake of a deadly terror attack in the city....
Thousands of indigenous people in south-east Bangladesh are fleeing the wrath of Bengali Muslims settlers who blame them for the death of a local youth leader of Bangladesh’s ruling party,  AsiaNews reported.  Members of the mostly Buddhist Chakma community in Rangamati district fled after their homes were torched by angry Muslim mobs following the death of Nurul Islam Nayan, a leader of Jubo League, the youth organization of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Awami League.  It is still unclear how Nayan died, but his body was found near a road on 1 June, but Bengali settlers nearby blamed it on the indigenous people, who reject the accusation."The culture of impunity and the state's failure to protect indigenous people on the hills show that a slow genocide is taking place," Theophil Nokrek, secretary of Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bangladesh (CBCB) said.  "The violence was pre-pla...
(Vatican Radio)  The staff and students of the schools of Miao Diocese in north-east India kicked off their new academic year on Monday, marking World Environment Day.  Schools under the Newman Educational Society (NES), the educational wing of Diocese of Miao in east Arunachal Pradesh state, made the most of the first day of the new academic year, June 5th, planting saplings around school campuses to mark this year World Environment Day.  Staff and students of the 45 schools of the Newman Educational Society spread across 8 districts of east Arunachal Pradesh planted saplings around their school campus to remind themselves of the urgent need to fight global warming and climate change and of the duty to leave a safe world to the coming generations. “These trees will not only help improve the environment but also make you feel proud of visiting your school in future and it will make you feel nostalgic,” said Fr. Felix Anthony, the Principal of Newman...
(Vatican Radio) In a heartfelt personal letter, Pope Francis has expressed his desire to “be among those praying to the heavenly Father” for the “chosen soul of our Brother” Cardinal Lubomyr Husar.The Holy Father noted the “extraordinary influx of people” paying their respects to the former head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. This, he said, “is an eloquent sign of what he has been: one of the highest and most respected moral authorities of the Ukrainian people in recent decades.”Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop emeritus of Kyiv-Halyc, died on 31 May 2017, aged 84.In his letter, addressed to Husar’s successor, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Pope Francis spoke of the late Cardinal’s efforts to lead his people beyond “the legacy of the ‘catacombs’ into which it was forced by persecutions.” He did so not only by restoring ecclesiastical structures, but especially through “...
(Vatican Radio) Doing works of mercy doesn’t mean just giving coins to assuage our consciences. Rather, it means sharing in the suffering of others, even at personal cost to ourselves. That message was at the heart of Pope Francis’ homily on Monday morning at his regular Santa Marta Mass.Philippa Hitchen reports:Reflecting on the first reading from the book of Tobit, or Tobias, the Pope noted how Tobit was saddened and wept at the murder of a Jewish kinsman, whose body he brought inside to bury after sunset. Pope Francis went on to speak about the 14 corporal and spiritual works of mercy, saying that to do them properly means not just sharing what we possess, but also sharing in the sufferings of others.We do not do works of mercy to assuage our consciences, to make us feel better, he said. Rather, the merciful person is the one who has pity on others and shares in their suffering. We must ask ourselves, am I generous? Do I know how to put myself in another person&rsqu...
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